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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Neutrino Experiment"”.
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The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is a high sensitivity experiment designed to determine the last unknown neutrino mixing angle $theta_{13}$ by measuring disappearance of reactor antineutrinos emitted from six 2.9 $GW_{th}$ reactors at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station. There are eight …
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The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
The Daya Bay experiment has determined the last unknown mixing angle $theta_{13}$. This thesis describes the layout of the experiment and the detector design. The analysis presented in the thesis covered the water attenuation, spent fuel neutrino and electron anti-neutrino spectrum. Other physics …
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Internal Radioactive Source Calibration of the Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment
A measurement of solar neutrinos below 1 MeV of energy will further our knowledge of the neutrino's mass and mixing properties and will provide a probe to possible physics beyond the standard model of particle physics, as well as advance our understanding of energy production in the Sun. Borexino …
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Measurement of neutrino mixing angle Θ13 in the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
Neutrino oscillations have been observed in experiments measuring solar, atmospheric, accelerator and reactor neutrinos. The phenomenon can be described by three mixing angles and three phases. The values of two mixing angles $\theta_{12}$ and $\theta_{23}$ have been pinned down while the value of …
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Rate analysis of the θ13 neutrino mixing angle for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
We perform a rate analysis of the neutrino mixing angle θ13 for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. The data were collected from December 24, 2011, to May 11, 2012, during a period of data acquisition when six antineutrino detectors were deployed. After accounting for backgrounds and detector …
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Measurement of K+ Production in νμ Charged-Current Interactions on Liquid Argon with MicroBooNE and Enhancing Proton Decay Sensitivity at DUNE
… several key observations including non-zero neutrino masses, matter–antimatter asymmetry, or dark matter. Studies of neutrino oscillations and proton decay offer pathways to searching for physics beyond the SM. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), utilising liquid argon time …
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A study of the feasibility of detecting primordial microscopic black hole remnants with the NOvA far detector
… of detecting these objects using long-baseline neutrino facilities, such as the NuMI Off-Axis νe Appearance (NOvA) experiment and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). The origin, stability, properties, and energy loss mechanism of such objects are examined. The signals produced from …
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An analysis of noise in the NOvA near detector
… NOvA (NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance) long-baseline neutrino experiment utilizes neutrino oscillations to gain insight into the unanswered questions in neutrino physics and further our knowledge of particle physics. The answers can only be arrived at through precise and accurate measurements of …
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Liquid Argon scintillation light quenching due to Nitrogen impurities : measurements performed for the MicroBooNE vertical slice test
The neutrino experiment MicroBooNE is currently under construction. To expedite the physics output of MicroBooNE, a smaller version of its optical detection system has been implemented. To demonstrate full operability of this prototype, two physics measurements were performed. The first examines …
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Measurement of the (e,e') cross section for 12C, 48Ti, 27Al and 40Ar
In the upcoming deep underground neutrino experiment (DUNE), Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) will be used as the detector technology, and argon will be used as the nuclear target. In order to reduce the systematic uncertainties on the extracted oscillation parameters, a more precise …
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Identifying muons for neutrino oscillation and cross section experiments
Neutrinos (v) are interesting for many reasons; they are the only fundamental fermions which are electrically neutral; their mass is orders of magnitude smaller than the lightest charged lepton, the electron; and their solely weak interactions make them an excellent probe of the weak nuclear force. …
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Characterization of Scintillation Light in Large Liquid Argon Detectors and the Implications for Proton Decay Searches
<p>The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a planned long baseline neutrino experi- ment. The detector will be comprised of four modules with 10kt of active volume each, making it an ideal target to neutrino oscillation physics and searches for proton decay. ProtoDUNE-SP was a …
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Analysis of JLab E12-14-012 Ti(e,e′p) Data and Determination of the Ti Spectral Function
Future long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments like the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) rely on Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detectors. The reconstruction of neutrino flavors and energy through interactions with Argon is a critical issue for assuring the DUNE …
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Novel Electromagnetic Properties of Elementary Particles
… particles couple to the photon? We discuss neutrino electromagnetic properties, a dark photon portal to dark matter and magnetic monopoles produced by cosmic rays in the milky way. We don't just discuss these models, but show how to place(in some cases) leading constraints on these models …
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Development of metal loaded liquid scintillators for future detectors to investigate neutrino properties
Several future neutrino experiments call for metal loaded liquid scintillators for neutrino detection. The challenge in the development of such scintillators is how to dissolve large amounts of the metal in an organic liquid scintillator without degrading the optical properties. A promising new …
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The penning trap electron gun for the KATRIN experiment
The KArlsruhe TRitium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) is currently in under construction, with plans to be activated in 2010. The experiment will measure the energy of electrons recoiling from the three body beta decay of Tritium (Hydrogen with two neutrons) in order to obtain the mass of the …
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Precision Neutrino Oscillations: Important Considerations for Experiments
Currently, we are in an era of neutrino physics in which neutrino oscillation experiments are focusing on doing precision measurements. In this dissertation, we investigate what is important to consider when doing these precise experiments, especially in light of significant unresolved anomalies. …
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The Measurement of Neutrino Induced Quasi-Elastic Cross Section In NOMAD
<p>NOMAD (Neutrino Oscillation MAgnetic Detector) was a short baseline neutrino experiment conducted at CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle physics) West Area Neutrino Facility (WANF) with a neutrino beam provided by the super proton synchrotron (SPS) accelerator. In this dissertation, we …
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Precise measurement of mixing parameters and sterile neutrino search at Daya Bay
Neutrino oscillation with three active neutrinos has been well established by experiments. However, θ_13 was the least known mixing angle before the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment. The Daya Bay experiment uses relative measurement with eight identically-designed antineutrino detectors (ADs) …
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Inclusive and exclusive electron scattering data analysis from Jefferson Lab experiment E12-14-012
Since the first observations of neutrino oscillation, neutrino experiments have come a long way toward precise measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters, but some obstacles still remain. The next generation of oscillation experiments, including the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment …
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